Research Catalog

Title

The era of Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 : a brief history with documents.

Author

Polenberg, Richard.

Publication

Boston, Mass. : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

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Details

Description

xiv, 251 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

• "The era of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal was a time of depression and despair, economic rebirth and renewal, and mobilization for a war spanning two oceans. Richard Polenberg's introduction to this new volume in The Bedford Series in History and Culture provides an historical and biographical overview of the period.
• This overview is followed by more than 45 topically arranged primary sources that provide students with a rich context in which to understand FDR's multifaceted role as president, reformer, policymaker, and commander in chief."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Bedford series in history and culture

Uniform Title

Bedford series in history and culture.

Subjects

• Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
• United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945
• United States > History > 1933-1945 > Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography and index (p. 245-251).

Contents

• Pt. 1. Introduction: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Liberalism. FDR: The Paradox. Hyde Park to Washington. The New Deal, 1933-1936. The Waning of Reform, 1937-1940. Liberals at War, 1941-1945. FDR: The Legacy -- Pt. 2. The Documents. 1. FDR as President. First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 / Franklin D. Roosevelt. First Press Conference, March 8, 1933 / Franklin D. Roosevelt. Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1935 / Franklin D. Roosevelt. Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936 / Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937 / Franklin D. Roosevelt. Speeches on Conservation and the Environment, 1936-1937 / Franklin D. Roosevelt. 2. The New Deal. The National Labor Relations Act, February 21, 1935 / Robert F. Wagner. The Social Security Act, September 2, 1935 / Frances Perkins. The Crisis in Agriculture, September 12, 1936 / John Steinbeck. Federal Relief, September 19, 1936 / Harry Hopkins.
• The Federal Theatre Project, May 11, 1938 / Hallie Flanagan. 3. Eleanor Roosevelt and American Women. Women in the Labor Force, June 16, 1938 / Eleanor Roosevelt. Women and the New Deal, April 8, 1936 / Molly Dewson. Women in Politics, March-April 1940 / Eleanor Roosevelt. 4. Documenting the Depression: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta, 1936. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936. Mexican Migratory Field Worker's Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Small Independent Gas Station during Cotton Strike, Kern City, California, November 1938. 5. Right ... and Left ... Face. The Challenge to Liberty, 1934 / Herbert Hoover. The New Deal vs. Democracy, July 15, 1936 / American Liberty League. The EPIC Plan, 1934 / Upton Sinclair. The National Union for Social Justice, November 11, 1934 / Charles E. Coughlin. Share Our Wealth, May 23, 1935 / Huey P. Long.
• 6. Race, Ethnicity, and Reform. Songs of the Mexican Migration: Deported [Deportados], 1933. The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio, 1940 / Selden Menefee and Orin C. Cassmore. The NAACP and Segregation, January-February 1934 / W. E. B. Du Bois and Walter White. The March on Washington, November 1942 / A. Philip Randolph. A New Deal for American Indians, 1938 / John Collier. The Voice of a Navajo Indian, April 10, 1934 / J. C. Morgan. 7. The Constitutional Revolution. United States v. Butler, January 6, 1936 / Owen Roberts and Harlan Fiske Stone. Unpacking the Court, February 13, 1937 / Robert M. La Follette, Jr. A Greatly Dangerous Precedent, July 19, 1937 / Herbert H. Lehman. West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, March 29, 1937 / Charles Evans Hughes and George Sutherland. Helvering v. Davis, May 24, 1937 / Benjamin N. Cardozo. 8. Morale in Wartime: A Portfolio of Propaganda Posters. United We Win, 1943 / U.S. War Manpower Commission.
• Do the Job HE Left Behind, 1943[?] / U.S. Employment Service. Lookout Monks! Here's Your Plane Warning! 1942 / Packer Aircraft. Buy Victory Bonds, 1945 / U.S. Treasury Department. 9. The "Good War"? Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry, April 30, 1942 / Western Defense Command. Footprints: Poetry of the American Relocation Camp Experience, ca. 1942-1944. Korematsu v. United States, December 18, 1944 / Hogo Black and Frank Murphy. Debate about the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, May 20, 1943 / Pearl S. Buck and A. Leonard Allen. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, June 14, 1943 / Robert Jackson and Felix Frankfurter. Report to the Secretary [of the Treasury] on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews, January 13, 1944 / Randolph Paul. Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz, July-November 1944 / John W. Pehle and John J. McCloy. Race, Religion, and Prejudice, May 11, 1942 / Eleanor Roosevelt.
• An Economic Bill of Rights, January 11, 1944 / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Chronology of Events during the Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945).

ISBN

• 0312227647 (hardcover)
• 0312133103 (pbk.)

OCLC

ocm43549977

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries